{"id":17549,"date":"2021-02-05T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=17549"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:27:24","slug":"halfway-through-5th-grade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/halfway-through-5th-grade-2","title":{"rendered":"Halfway through 5th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had to write this up and post date it because I&#8217;m a bit behind but still want the record.<\/p>\n<p>For our morning devotions, Benjamin has been following along as Hannah gets her 3-year reading badge done. He has his own section of scripture to read each day and continues with his memory work on a weekly basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In history\/social studies, we learned about money with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?<\/span> Our main spine is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Journey to the Eastern Hemisphere<\/span>. We completed a unit on Southeast Asia and Vietnam and started a unit on India. We have a couple selections each week from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">100 Gateway Cities<\/span>. He also stays up with current events with his\u00a0<em>World Kids\u00a0<\/em>magazine each week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read Alouds were interesting.\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Breaking Stalin&#8217;s Nose<\/span> went over Ben&#8217;s head but I think he got a little bit out of it. We ready <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Land I Lost<\/span> or as we renamed it, &#8216;all the ways you can be killed by nature in Vietnam&#8217;. For India, we read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rickshaw Girl<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Teresa of Calcutta<\/span>. We also have a poetry reading from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All the Small Poems<\/span> a couple times a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In language, we do spelling with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sequential Spelling 3<\/span>, grammar with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Keys to Good Language 5<\/span>, and vocabulary with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wordly Wise 3000 &#8211; Book 5<\/span>. He also does a creative assignment each week, but needs a little encouragement to do a good job instead of just the bare minimum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ben read\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Turning<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Just So Stories<\/span>, and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Around the World in 80 Days<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_6451.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17552 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_6451-819x1024.jpg?resize=411%2C514&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_6451.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_6451.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_6451.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_6451.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a>Science is anatomy this year. We have been reading from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Blood and Guts<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Usborne Complete Book of the Human Body<\/span>,\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Food and Nutrition for Every Kid<\/span>. He also read a short book called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Almost 12<\/span>. Not much in the way of experiments this round, but we did watch a DVD called\u00a0<em>Unlocking the Mystery of Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Math is chugging along in Horizons 5. He does well without my assistance most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Extras are always fun. Benjamin is really enjoying the karate class in McGregor. He is also our &#8220;tech&#8221; man for church functions. He runs our slides and plays our media. Very flexible as we sometimes don&#8217;t know what we are going to do until we get there. haha. We spend a lot of time at Connections and he is helpful when we need him to be. He helped with our foster dog Brownie, but was not thrilled with the couple days of winter snow that we had. He also got to launch his rocket for Royal Rangers rocketry merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to write this up and post date it because I&#8217;m a bit behind but still want the record. For our morning devotions, Benjamin has been following along as Hannah gets her 3-year reading badge done. He has his own section of scripture to read each day and continues with his memory work on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[201,3620,302,303],"tags":[3323,3621,1183],"class_list":["post-17549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benjamin-kids","category-core-f","category-horizons-math","category-science-homeschool","tag-18-weeks","tag-5th-grade","tag-halfway","wpcat-201-id","wpcat-3620-id","wpcat-302-id","wpcat-303-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-4z3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22663,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/halfway-through-5th-grade-3","url_meta":{"origin":17549,"position":0},"title":"Halfway through 5th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"March 25, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Ginny finished week 18 at the end of February. 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